by Plait Marketing | Apr 20, 2021 | Stories
LET US PRAY While traveling across Nebraska Territory, severe thunderstorms occasionally threatened the Willie handcart company. Thirteen-year-old Betsey Smith gave a description of what happened in one of these instances: “The wind . . . kept blowing harder...
by Plait Marketing | Apr 20, 2021 | Stories
LOOKING FORWARD Sara Ann Oakey had early childhood memories that were not typical — walking up a gangplank to a large sailing ship, receiving a hard sea biscuit for her fourth birthday a week later, riding more than a thousand miles in a loaded handcart, and...
by Plait Marketing | Apr 20, 2021 | Stories
MINISTERING James G. Willie was diligent in caring for the Saints on the ship, who had many needs. “I believe there has never before been a company with so many old and young, halt, blind, and lame, from so many nations, that crossed the sea,” wrote Anna...
by Plait Marketing | Apr 20, 2021 | Stories
MORMON BOY (GEORGE CUNNINGHAM) “We are now in the desert, or wilderness, a wave-like country without woods, only a few trees,” wrote Peter Madsen, a Danish member of the Willie company, on August 17, 1856. It was George Cunningham’s 16th birthday and...
by Plait Marketing | Apr 20, 2021 | Stories
MOTHER’S BACK Margery Smith was a 51-year-old widow from Dundee, Scotland, who was emigrating with five children, May (22), Jane (17), Mary (15), Betsey (13), and Alex(6); and a close friend of the family, Euphemia Mitchell (22). Margery’s oldest son,...
